Tracey Moffatt

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Tracey Moffatt (born November 12, 1960 in Brisbane , Queensland ) is an Australian avant-garde artist , photographer and filmmaker who lives in Noosa Heads, Sydney and New York .

Career

In Visual Communication , Tracey Moffatt graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Arts in 1982 and went to Sydney. There she began with style exercises as a filmmaker and photographer in the areas of Aboriginal , childhood trauma and new media . Tracey Moffatt published the photo series Some Lads and The Movie Star in 1985 and 1986 on the subject of Aboriginal and whites . In 1989, the photo series Something More was about violence and disappointment in a glittering world .

Night cries. A Rural Tragedy brought Tracey Moffatt international attention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989 by once again addressing the Australian natives problem .

Apart from the Aboriginal theme, photos were presented in Pet Thang in 1991 in a dream-like sequence.

In 1993, BeDevil , Tracey Moffatt directed, wrote the screenplay and appeared as Ruby Morphet in one of the three sequences. Ruby and her husband are bullied by a devilish ghost in the film.

The adolescence theme, raised in 1994 in the photo series Scarred for Life (roughly: drawn for life), was taken up again five years later. 1995 in the photo series Goodlooking (German: Gutaussehend) roller derby girls attack each other.

The material for her 1997 film Heaven was given to Tracey Moffatt by voyeuristic women who had filmed male surfers on Bondi Beach . In the photo series Laudanum and lip (for example: Opium und Lippe), Tracey Moffatt experimented with toning on heliogravures in 1999 . In terms of content, this work is probably - as in the brightly colored Adventure Series from 2004 - about tangible sexual sensitivities.

In the 2005 photo series Under the Sign of Scorpio , Tracey Moffatt placed Catherine Deneuve , Georgia O'Keeffe , Björk and several other artists in a wonderful, but sometimes eruptive world. The photo series Doomed (about: doomed) for the film of the same name from 2007 also ends explosively.

Works (selection)

photo

  • 1991 Pet Thang
  • 1994 Scarred for Life
  • 1995 GUAPA (Goodlooking)
  • 1998 Up in the Sky
  • 1999 Scarred for Life 2
  • 1999 Laudanum and lip
  • 2000 Invocations
  • 2001 Fourth
  • 2004 Adventure Series
  • 2005 Under the Sign of Scorpio
  • 2007 Doomed

Filmography

  • 1987 Nice Colored Girls
  • 1989 Night Cries. A Rural Tragedy
  • 1993 BeDevil
  • 1997 Heaven
  • 2007 Doomed ,
  • Artist from 2000 and Revolution from 2008 are each a 10-minute experimental video in cooperation with Gary Hillberg.

Honor

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eng. Noosa Heads, Queensland
  2. ↑ eng. Artist profile in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
  3. ↑ eng. Pet Thang at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  4. ↑ eng. Scarred for Life at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  5. ↑ eng. Goodlooking at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  6. ↑ eng. Up in the Sky at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  7. ↑ eng. Scarred for Life II at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  8. ↑ eng. Laudanum and lip at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  9. ↑ eng. Invocations at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  10. ↑ eng. Fourth at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  11. ↑ eng. Adventure Series at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  12. ↑ eng. Under the Sign of Scorpio in the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  13. ↑ eng. Doomed at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
  14. ↑ eng. Entry at itsanhonour.gov.au
  15. ↑ eng. Australia Council for the Arts
personal data
SURNAME Moffatt, Tracey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian avant-garde artist, photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane , Queensland